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What Farmers Should Do in Heavy Rain
A checklist of essential tasks for farmers during heavy rain, from draining fields and staking crops to protecting ponds, livestock and seed.
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Sakila's Enchanting Rooftop Garden in Kalyanpur
Sakila Parvin has recreated the greenery of her native Naogaon on a rooftop garden in Dhaka's Kalyanpur.
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Demand for Water Chestnut Grows in Satkhira Markets
Early water chestnut has reached Satkhira's markets, and growers in Debhata expect profits as demand for the fruit rises.
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Commercial Grape Farming Begins in Chandpur for the First Time
Chandpur entrepreneur Kamruzzaman Pradhania has succeeded in growing grapes, a foreign fruit, and has begun commercial cultivation on 20 decimals of land.
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Returnee Migrant Selim Finds Success With a Nursery
Selim Uddin of Mirsharai, who came home ill from the Gulf, started a fruit sapling nursery with Tk 3,000 of borrowed money and now earns more than he did abroad.
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Grow Bitter Gourd All Year Round
Bitter gourd, once a summer crop, can now be grown throughout the year across Bangladesh with the right soil, care and fertiliser.
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Jibonkrishna Succeeds in Growing Stevia, a Sugar Substitute
A government engineer in Kaliganj, Lalmonirhat, has turned 17 stevia seedlings into a 200-plant garden in eight months and plans to grow the sugar substitute commercially.
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Perching Method for Controlling Crop Pests Is Spreading
Perching, which lets insect-eating birds control rice pests from sticks set in the field, now covers about 80 percent of rice land in Joypurhat and is cutting pesticide use.
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Ginger Grown in More Than 3 Lakh Sacks in Nilphamari
Sack cultivation of ginger is spreading across every upazila of Nilphamari, with 3,32,775 sacks planted on fallow land this year.
Vegetables
Haor Farmers Try to Recover With New Seedlings
Flood-hit farmers in Sunamganj's haor region are starting winter vegetables with cheap, high-yield seedlings raised in a local poly house.
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Omar Sharif Succeeds in Growing Avocado in the Hills
A young entrepreneur has become the first in Mirsharai, Chattogram, to grow avocado successfully, and now plans to expand and sell seedlings.
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Bitter Gourd Farming Brings High Profit at Low Cost
Farmers in Joypurhat are expanding bitter gourd cultivation after good profits, with traders buying straight from the fields at Tk 1,500-1,600 a maund.
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What to Do When Leaves of Gourd-Family Crops Turn Yellow
Downy mildew, a fungal disease, is the main reason the leaves of gourd-family crops in Bangladesh turn yellow, and it can be prevented and controlled.